Wabi-Sabi of Photography and Why I Stopped Chasing Perfection: islandinthenet.com

@mangochutney That’s exactly what I think too. I know a man, a nice and good older man, and he have a “listening room”, with SACDs and music equipment for several ten thousands of dollars worth, and I lent him a couple of CDs (ordinary CDs), and one of them he said was great, but the other one he couldn’t even listen to, because of inferior audio quality. I couldn’t hear much difference between the quality of them, but I could enjoy both for their musical quality. I grew up listening to Radio Luxembourg 🇱🇺 and the audio quality weren’t good, but they played music that NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster didn’t, and it was great! @khurtwilliams

@odd Out of curiosity, which cds was it?

@MrHenko I don’t remember anymore, I’m afraid… This was years ago, and I have since get rid of all my CDs.

@odd @mangochutney my dad was an audiophile and he certainly spent good money on good equipment. But I never felt that he was in pursuit of perfection. He thoroughly enjoyed the music.

@khurtwilliams Yes, the man I was mentioning certainly had a good taste in music as well as having certain criteria for what he considered worth listening to, but he, (said himself), that he had a special chair he had modified, and would use hours moving one millimeter at a time, to get the optimal listening experience.

Although I certainly can appreciate good audio quality, it’s mostly about the feeling the music itself can give me, so I’m very forgiving of poor audio quality.

@odd OMG! Moving my chair a millimeter just to optimise the 0.00001% different I "think" I can hear, that seems insane to me.

@khurtwilliams Right? 🙄